Video shows how to get your S-Pen unstuck in Galaxy Note 5

We’ve heard the arguments pro and against Samsung regarding this whole “S-Pen gets stuck if you put it in backwards in the Galaxy Note 5, from the humorous to the ridiculous to the rational. But the more important thing now, moving forward, particularly for the owners of the newest phablet from the Korean OEM is: “what do you do when your S-Pen actually gets stuck there???” Fortunately, a YouTube tech channel has found a simple and truly inexpensive way to set it free.

And when we mean set it free, it doesn’t just mean you get to remove your S-Pen, but it also means you actually don’t damage the detection sensor and the S-Pen itself. Damaging that sensor will actually render your phablet useless, that is why Galaxy Note 5 owners who for some reason or another put their S-Pen backwards are howling to the moon. The good news is that How2Tech posted a video on their channel showing that with just a piece of paper, you can get it unstuck without causing damage to the other parts.

According to the video, which of course demo-ed the actual Note 5 and S-Pen, you just cut a strip of paper around 6 inches long, with the width just enough to go around the curve of the S-Pen. Then curl the paper around a pen so that it will be able to wrap itself around the protruding part of the S-Pen. Slide the paper onto the holding bay along the side of the pen. When it reaches the sensor near the end of the holding bay, then you’ll be able to slide the S-Pen since the detector sensor is out of the way (of sorts).

Of course sliding in the piece of paper isn’t as easy or as simple as it sounds like, and you’ll see in the video that it takes some time to be able to do so. But hey, you would endure that rather than seeing your $800 Galaxy Note 5 down the drain, wouldn’t you?